The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demura Voronin in the case of treason

The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demura Voronin in the case of treason

The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demura Voronin to 13 years and three months in a strict-regime prison in the case of treason. According to the investigation, he passed on secret information to one of the western countries. Voronin has Russian and German citizenship, he was detained in 2021 a few hours before his flight to Berlin.

The circumstances of the political scientist’s case are classified, the details of the charges are not disclosed. In Moscow, Voronin had a consulting agency that ordered analytical texts from well-known journalists. The political scientist was mentioned in one of the episodes of the case of the journalist Ivan Safronov, who was also convicted on the charge of treason.

According to the accusation against Safronov, he gave Voronin secret information about the Russian army in Syria, which the political scientist, in turn, forwarded to representatives of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Safronov’s defense reported that Voronin first testified against the journalist, but at the court he declared that he framed him.

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